Die Fledermaus – review

Millennium Centre, CardiffJohann Strauss II's operetta might be about revenge, but it's not dastardly, it's frothy. The "bat" of the title, once abandoned, drunk, in fancy dress and pilloried, gets his own back on his pal Von Eisenstein by showing him up as a philanderer. Then it's more champagne and on with the waltzing.Welsh National Opera's new production, setting fin-de-siècle Vienna in an art-nouveau frame, relies on the experience of director John Copley, who pays Strauss the compliment o...

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